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CHAP. VI. How the command of the Law layeth an obliging •and on us.

CHAP. VI. How the command of the Law layeth an obleiging •and on us.

But 1. we say not that the moral Law bindeth under that reduplication, as given by Moses, for then all Ceremonials should bind us also who are Christians. But that God intended by these ten words delivered by Moses, to oblige all Christians, to the worlds end, to perpetual obedience, is clear. 1. Christ, and his Apostles, press the moral Law upon the Gentiles. Paul commandeth the Romans the ^afulfilling of the Law in love; the Ephesians ^bthe first Commandment (given by Moses, Exod. 20.) with promise. James his hearers ^cthe fulfilling ⟨p. 6⟩of the royal Law, according to the Scripture, (no Scriptures but the writing of Moses and the Prophets) and that not for the matter only, for so a Sabbath day could not oblige the Gentiles, if the Law-giver did not command it; but from the authority of the Law-giver, for vers. 11. He that said (this is the authority of the Law-giver) Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill; and ^dThere is one Law-giver; so the Apostles add in their Epistles these very things that Moses commanded, to the doctrine of faith, showing that they are Christs ten Commandments, rather then Moses. 2. Notwithstanding that all Law (Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal,) should expire in regard of any binding they have from God, just as this, thou shalt be circumcised; when Christ dyed and rose again: yet there is Scripture for removing of shadows,